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Enter Our Calendar Photo Contest!
Happy Paws Rescue is holding its first annual calendar photo contest! The winners of the photo contest will be featured in a 2012 Happy Paws calendar! We will sell these calendars as a fundraiser to support the mission of our rescue. If your pet is a ham for the camera, here’s how you can enter: 1...
read morePlease Help Our Sweet Peach
Life hasn’t been so peachy for our 10-week-old foster kitten, Peach. She and her siblings Pippa, Parka, and Peanut, were brought in from the outside by a local couple. The couple asked us for help in finding the cats homes, so we took them in as Happy Paws kitties. We noticed that Peach was limping..
read moreA Giant-Sized Celebration
Move over, Clifford the Big Red Dog! Make way for Quinton the Brindle Great Dane! This purebred puppy was just recently adopted from Happy Paws Rescue. He now goes by the name Rafa. His forever home even has a Great Dane sibling in the family. Have a photo to share of your Happy Paws adopted..
read moreRutgers Farmers Market
This past week, Happy Paws Rescue Inc. made its debut at the Rutgers Gardens Farmers Market. Rutgers is not only around the corner from us, but all three of our founders and board members are Rutgers alumnae! Lots of people stopped by to meet our adoptable animals. We sold homemade dog treats, which were baked by..
read moreChristmas in July
We’ve let our pups in on a little secret. You see, we told them about the holiday of Christmas in July. We explained that Santa might just be bringing them some of their favorite food, toys, treats, and other necessities. It’s something to look forward as we approach the dog days of summer. So if..
read morePennies-4-Paws to the Rescue!
We can’t begin to tell you how we appreciative we are for a non-profit group called Pennies-4-Paws, Inc. Harnessing the power of social media, the kind folks behind P4P garner donations for animal-rescue causes. On some days, they raise money to donate kitty litter to shelters. On other days, they raise money for dogs with..
read morePlease Help Us Help Spirit
Spirit at the shelter Spirit was rescued from the Associated Humane Societies in Newark, NJ. This is the same shelter where ‘Patrick’ was brought when he was found close to death. Sadly, this is another heart-wrenching story to come out of Newark. Spirit was an owner surrender to the shelter. Her owner brought Spirit to..
read moreMetuchen Junebug Pet Parade
Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Metuchen Junebug Pet Parade! There were dozens of dogs and their humans dressed up in hilarious outfits. One of our volunteer’s personal dogs, Sam, (above) earned second place with his lifeguard costume! We brought many of our foster dogs with us, including Hazel (below.) She was quite..
read moreHappy Tales for Happy Paws
We’ve had a number of adoptions in the past couple of weeks, including Romeo, Daisy, Karina, Bugsy, Lacey, and Jitterbug—just to name a few! We love to see photos of the animals with their new families. If you’ve adopted a dog from Happy Paws, email us a photo at [email protected] and we’ll post it here...
read moreBo Peep Needs Help!
Our little Bo Peep is very sick and we desperately need help paying her vet bills! It is possible she has distemper, but we are testing her for everything because we are just not sure what is wrong with her. If you can donate anything to help cover her medical costs, we (and Bo Peep)..
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